Forming habits is all about repetition. If you're looking to form a habit that involves a computer—whether that's writing daily, logging your workouts, or whatever else—writer Aytekin Tank suggests automatically loading the sites that help you form those habits every time you start your browser.

Chrome and Firefox both have options to automatically load a set of web sites on startup. Tank used these to automatically load sites he needed to check daily:

I accidentally discovered a stress-free way to remind myself to do something every day with minimum amount of work.

Every morning, when I come to the office I launch my Google Chrome browser. It stays open during the day and since I like doing a clean start every day I shutdown my computer when I leave the office.

There were tasks I needed to do every day. Things I needed to check daily. So, I started putting them on Chrome's On Startup Settings.

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This is obviously only useful for those habits that rely on a computer, but it's simple enough that's easy to implement and try for yourself. If you want to customize those sites a bit more, we've got you covered.